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Proper Way To Upgrade openSUSE 12.1 from KDE 4.7 to KDE 4.8 Release

I need some advice on the correct way to upgrade from the KDE 4.7 Upstream Release to the newly released KDE 4.8 Upstream.

In my repositories I had KDE 4.7 Upstream for Core, Extra and Playground. I disabled those and added the KDE 4.8 Upstream Release Repositories for Core, Extra and Playground.

When I go to do a software update I get a very large number of Dependency Errors. So, rather than take a chance and break my system by selecting the wrong option somewhere to resolve, I aborted the update.

Any advice on how to proceed and not end up with a broken system would be appreciated.

and since you are using applications / packages from KDE/Extra and
KDE/Unstable:/Playground, you'll have to permit the package switcher to
use packages from "excluded repositories," which refers to extra &
playground. (since you're asking to "switch to packages from this repo,"
yast considers the other repo.s as "excluded," and asks you for permission
to use them in every case.

I am very interested in upgrading from 4.7 to 4.8. My only concern is how it will affect Kontact and the whole PIM suite. That is the primary piece of software I use. I reverted to Kontact v4.4.11 because kmail2 was broken in 4.7.whatever. I want to take advantage of all the improved functionality of 4.8 (hopefully the lags have been smoothed out) but not lose the key piece of software that I require for my day to day operation.

Will I be able to upgrade to 4.8.x without affecting the KDEPIM suite?